Lawman Without a Gun

"Alabama's First Black Sheriff. America's Most Dangerous Job."

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

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Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.

Tom Hayward

Clu Gulager

Marvin Tayman

Mary Alice

Minnie Hayward

Barry Brown

Fred Tayman

Barton Heyman

George Tayman

James McEachin

Harris McIntyre

Lonny Chapman

Sheriff Harvey Johnson

James McEacheon

Harris McIntyre

Helen Martin

Mrs. Cartwright

John Crawford

Sgt. Hunt

John Ashton

1st State Trooper

Burton Gilliam

Rev. Farrell

Clebert Ford

Albert Jackson

Nick Smith

Factory Worker

Philip Michael Thomas

Rufus Cartwright

Katherine Pass

Loretta Tayman

Joe Morton

Louis

Jerry DeWilde

Greenspan

Jerry Allison

Big Ed

Andrew Fradkin

Burton

Shiela Bailey Lucas

Registrar

Patricia A. Gill

Mrs. Hattie Waters

Evelyn Boone

Marvin Tayman's Secretary

Tommie L. Ray

Isaac

Robert Harper

Well-Dressed Man

Sonny Jim Gaines

Mr. Smith

Jon Ralph Wilson

James

Royce Clark

Trooper at Factory

Crew

Jerrold Freedman

Writer

Fred Karlin

Original Music Composer

Mary Goldberg

Casting

John F. Link

Editor

Tak Fujimoto

Director of Photography

Roger Gimbel

Producer

Herman F. Zimmerman

Art Direction

Abby Mann

Executive Producer

Jerrold Freedman

Director

Harry R. Sherman

Producer

Vera Garver

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